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Got a question for Eric Koester? Use the chat feature above to get it answered live. Eric Koester is a serial entrepreneur and most recently the founder of Zaarly, a leading online marketplace to discover and work with talented local service provider...

The Fancy, a Pinterest-like startup that wants you to shop what you pin (or "fancy"), announced a partnership with location-based marketplace Zaarly Monday. Now, users of The Fancy can find and purchase nearly any item or service they can find a Zaar...

Name: Zaarly Big Idea: Zaarly is a marketplace for anything -- whether you want to send your wife flowers, have someone bring you dinner or need someone to mow your lawn. Sellers are hiring locally and keeping money within the community, while provid...

An Olympic games, a U.S. presidential election and the end of the world are already planned for 2012, but we're more excited about the startups. Here are six of them (in no particular order) that we expect to help define the coming year. We chose com...

Graduate student Liz Langer has recovered a stranger's Mercedes keys from a sewer using a fishing pole and magnet. She's assembled a Festivus pole for a holiday party she didn't attend, and delivered coffee to an office building she never worked in -...

What started as a local market for odd jobs is also becoming a way for small businesses to find leads -- for free. Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace Zaarly has signed up 1,250 businesses in New York City to fill requests from its users, and it is launc...

Zaarly, a startup peer-to-peer marketplace that has been called an alternative to eBay, has announced that eBay's former CEO, Meg Whitman, will join its board of directors. The startup's founder and CEO Bo Fishback, who also announced a $14 million r...

Sites like eBay, Amazon and Craigslist moved person-to-person marketplaces from people's lawns to the Internet. Now a handful of startups are moving transactions back to neighborhoods by adding a mobile, location-based element. SideSell, which launch...

Let's say you need to assemble a piece of IKEA furniture. You dislike doing it so much that you would be willing to pay somebody $50 to put it together for you. Perhaps one of your neighbors is an unemployed carpenter who would take the offer. But ho...

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